Ellison Onizuka was an American aerospace engineer and United States Air Force officer, the first Asian American and the first person of Japanese descent to fly in space, on a 1985 Space Shuttle Discovery mission. He was selected as a mission specialist for the January 1986 Challenger flight STS-51-L, his second spaceflight. Onizuka was among the seven crew members killed when Challenger broke apart shortly after launch, and he is remembered in Hawaii, his home state, through numerous schools and memorials named after him.
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Defining ContributionAmerican astronaut and U.S. Air Force flight test engineer who flew into space aboard Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-51-C 3 Notable MissionSTS-51-C (Space Shuttle Discovery) 3 Number of Flights FirstsFirst for a Group of People 3 Classification
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Wikipedia Ellison Onizuka lead section infobox, selection field (w-bbfill-edspace5-0927)View the Source 3. Ellison Onizuka - Wikipedia
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Ellison Shoji Onizuka (1946-06-24)June 24, 1946 Kealakekua, Hawaii Territory, U.S.
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Ellison Shoji Onizuka (1946-06-24)June 24, 1946 Kealakekua, Hawaii Territory, U.S.
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Ellison Shoji Onizuka (1946-06-24)June 24, 1946 Kealakekua, Hawaii Territory, U.S.
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January 28, 1986(1986-01-28) (aged 39) North Atlantic Ocean
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January 28, 1986(1986-01-28) (aged 39) North Atlantic Ocean
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Ellison Shoji Onizuka (Japanese: エリソン・ショージ・オニヅカ, 鬼塚 承次, Hepburn: Onizuka Shōji; June 24, 1946 - January 28, 1986) was an American astronaut, engineer, and U.S. Air Force flight test engineer from Kealakekua, Hawaii, who successfully flew into space with the Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-51-C.
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Ellison Shoji Onizuka (Japanese: エリソン・ショージ・オニヅカ, 鬼塚 承次, Hepburn: Onizuka Shōji; June 24, 1946 - January 28, 1986) was an American astronaut, engineer, and U.S. Air Force flight test engineer from Kealakekua, Hawaii, who successfully flew into space with the Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-51-C.
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Ellison Shoji Onizuka (Japanese: エリソン・ショージ・オニヅカ, 鬼塚 承次, Hepburn: Onizuka Shōji; June 24, 1946 - January 28, 1986) was an American astronaut, engineer, and U.S. Air Force flight test engineer from Kealakekua, Hawaii, who successfully flew into space with the Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-51-C.
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Onizuka was the first Asian American and the first person of Japanese ancestry to reach space.
Ellison Onizuka, Wikipedia - lead section, astronaut role
He died in the destruction of the Space Shuttle Challenger, on which he was serving as Mission Specialist for mission STS-51-L.
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Air Force flight test engineer from Kealakekua, Hawaii, who successfully flew into space with the Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-51-C.
View the Source4. The Space Devs Launch Library 2: Launch Library 2 astronaut list, records 301 to 400
The Space Devs Launch Library 2Astronaut record 356, Ellison OnizukaQuote, Astronaut record 356, Ellison Onizuka
"name": "Ellison Onizuka" ... "flights_count": 2
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